Raising the Bar – Integrating Cultural Competence and Equity: Equitable Evaluation

Abstract

The AEA statement invites the philanthropic sector to align its evaluation functions with its programmatic mission. Because the act of evaluation is itself part of the intervention, an equity lens is paramount when evaluating a program whose goals touch on issues of equity or inclusion. [...]it is all the more disheartening when evaluation is done without an equity lens, running the risk of extending the very disparity that an organization seeks to remedy.